@DaftFader 561959 wrote:
^^ this.
I’ve got high testosterone (started going bald at 19 because of it!).
@The Psyentist 561970 wrote:
Whatever dude, you’re just making up excuses 😛
All men who are short in stature have high testosterone (which is why they tend to be historically good at winning wars and/or operating in competitive environments) ; but those who are of North European ancestry are far more likely to go bald at early ages, irrespective of their height. Ethnicity can have some effect, but I am not sure if North European males are that much more prone to aggression after using alcohol than anyone else. It is claimed men of Asian ancestry are less likely to get involved in fights when drunk; and alcohol relaxes them more; but most evidence comes from monitoring adult Japanese or Singaporean males in a skilled, well paid job in high tech industry, who are going drinking as part of work-related socialising.
Middle class men who have families and/or decent jobs are smart enough to realise its not a good idea to get into pissed up fights and get hurt or arrested as it puts everything else at risk; and for most of the 20th century CCTV with recording facilities has been present in public spaces (their employers most likely supplied the kit watching them!). I’ve discussed booze (and drugs) with chaps who grew up in England and mainland Europe (and whose families are of North European descent) who worked for the PTT/ British Telecom, Philips, Marconi, Plessey etc (big European employers until the 1990s/2000s) and they all consumed astounding quantities of beer, spirits and other stuff as well; but they never got into serious fights/trouble for the same reasons.
Although I lead a peaceful existence whenever possible. I’m honest enough to admit this is just because its not rational for someone of my background, living in peacetime in a prosperous European country and not suffering any major life problems to physically attack another person. Also not being physically large, I would have to do a “proper job of it” which results in arrest and (outside of self defence) prison/secure mental home, even a self-defence case has to be proven in Court (which even if you don’t get a long sentence still causess you life problems and puts your family in constant danger). So as I’ve got a reasonable quality of life, I keep out of trouble. I’ve seen people act in very strange and unpleasant ways on other drugs as well as booze, as well as heavy drinkers who were no threat to anyone in spite of being from other minority groups often blamed for boozing and fighting. Long term soft drugs/party drugs added to the pressures of growing up can also cause mood swings leading to aggressive incidents.
I do not think my race makes me “less violent” (or my height potentially more so), and in my youth there might well have been times when I was safer to the rest of society drunk (or on any other drugs) than when sober. I still think prohibition of party drugs is a flawed concept, but behaving like a twat on any drug (including alcohol) unfortunately is used to justify it, even more so as the authorities in modern European nations now consider problems from alcohol use to be the same as those from controlled drugs, but what discourages decrim is a fear that people will do a shit ton of everything at once and there will be complete havoc on the street rather than a big party….
